Why wasn't Bill Belichick capable of reigning in Aaron Hernandez? Why is Ray Lewis employed by ESPN? Why couldn't Jim Harbaugh cure Aldon Smith's mental retardation?
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Ambiturner
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Jones didn't get into any legal trouble since signing with the Cowboys. They released him after they found out about something that happened a year before he even signed with them.
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Nobody is touting the Patriots, Ravens, ESPN, or 49'ers support system. Why is it so hard for Cowboy fans to admit they don't have a good team, good quarterback or good support system in relation to being arrested for their players.
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Jesus. All I said was the Cowboys sometimes bring in players with issues because they believe in their support system. I never said it was the greatest fucking thing ever or that players never get into trouble.
And lol at keeping on the Romo hate. If there's anything that's been proved over the last 5 games it's that he's the primary reason they've not been a complete and total dumpster fire over the years.
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Are you being serious right now? You think everyone else in the country would get fired for being accused of a felony unrelated to their job even if they weren't serving any time? I don't doubt there are some who would get fired, but the percentage is small. If I was in the same situation and my company fired me, I'd have their ass in a sling for wrongful termination in no time flat.
Motherfucker didn't get to play. To the record books, the fan, and the competitor in Greg Hardy it's the same thing.
Are you sure he wasn't released because he beat up his team appointed chaperon and then threatened the replacement chaperon? Because my recollection of the events is that's what did him in. I believe the old stuff surfaced after he was on the way out the door.
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Not everyone else in the country is subject to a personal conduct policy the way NFL players are, so this argument really doesn't make sense.
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Hoss apparently doesn't understand about a companies public image and what not and morality clauses. He works at a McDonalds or something.
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He finished the season out after that incident. After the season was over there was word he was involved in a 2007 shooting and that's when they said "fuck it" and released him.
Even the places that do would weigh it against the employees production. The idea that any other person who gets charged with DV would be fired immediately is ridiculous.
Merrith
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Wtf does this even mean? His statement was completely ignoring the major difference between NFL players and "everyone else in the country". This isn't the first NFL player to get cut over issues completely off the field either.
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I really don't see what your point is. The person he was quoting implied anyone who ever got charged with domestic violence would immediately be fired. Obviously, the reason you mentioned made that a stupid statement as well as the fact that even places with a personal conduct policy would take into account how productive the person was.
Don't the Redskins have a LB who was charged with beating the shit out of his girlfriend?
Merrith
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Yes you do, you pointed it out 2 sentences later.
Now that we have that settled.
I guess, with the Ray Lewis example, we can sort of claim this. Although how it's relevant to the simple idea that Hoss claiming if he was in the same situation and his company fired him he'd be suing them isn't the same at all as for an NFL player that is subject to a personal conduct policy, I don't know.
I assume you mean Junior Galette, who was arrested in January while a member of the Saints, and had the legal charges dismissed by February. The civil suit was then dismissed in August, the same day he first practiced with the Redskins. His lawyer after the dismissal of the civil suit:
Also very transparent attempt at "BUT THE SKINS SIGNED A BAD GUY TOO"
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Oh so it happened a long time ago while he was with a different team and was later dismissed.
Completely different.
Completely different.
Merrith
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Actually not completely different, I wasn't a big fan of the signing myself. Just stating the facts for you since you brought it up. Even though a complete tangent from the basic response of mine that started this that "everyone else in the country" are not all subject to a personal conduct policy.